When approaching the entrance of the cave, Jiang Baimian stopped and turned back to Long Yuehong, who was wearing an exoskeleton device:
"You are on guard here."
She thought about it and added:
"Look more outside the grove, if the jeep is lost, I have nothing to do with Bai Chen, you will have 'enjoyment'. Many things, if they come gradually, human beings can accept and adapt, but if you Just pull it to hell difficulty, and most creatures will collapse directly."
"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong not only was not disappointed, but was relieved that he could not enter Black Rat Town.
From the residents of Black Rat Town who died outside, he seemed to be able to foresee the tragic situation in the cave, suspecting that it would have a strong impact on his spirit, leaving a psychological shadow that needed treatment.
After instructing Long Yuehong, Jiang Baimian turned around, bent down, and walked into the hole that was almost one meter high.
Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen each held their weapons and followed behind, one on the left and one on the right, but one had his back and knees bent hard, and walking was a bit difficult, while the other was relatively better.
They did not first observe the outside to confirm the general situation before entering, as the training manual said, but fully believed in the team leader's ability to sense weak electrical signals.
In this regard, Jiang Baimian has shown enough credibility.
At the entrance of the cave, there is still light from the sky, which makes people barely able to see the surrounding situation clearly, and the further inside, the darker it becomes, until the five fingers can’t be stretched out.
At this time, Jiang Baimian took out a flashlight with a silver-white shell and a clear grainy feel, and pushed the switch up.
The yellowish beam of light lasing out, illuminating a certain area in front, and in combination with the natural light near the entrance, let Shang Jianyao see what the scene in front of him looks like:
This cave is still wide, and the deeper part is still shrouded in darkness, with no end in sight.
There were originally stone pillars formed naturally here. At this time, they were all broken, and a large number of stones, moss, and dust fell from the top of the cave and covered the surface.
The ground takes the center position of Jiang Baimian's flashlight as the origin, and the traces of flames are radiated outward in a circular shape.
In the inner pothole closest to the origin, there were no corpses that could be called intact, only countless charred black and red minced flesh and blood mixed between stones and soil.
In the middle circle outside the potholes, one after another dwarfed corpses lay down.
With the movement of Jiang Baimian's flashlight, Shang Jianyao saw what was going on at the edge of the cave near the rock wall outside the central circle:
There is also a corpse of a black rat town resident who fell to the ground in various states, but the body is basically intact, with only certain burn marks, and some thick black hairs remain.
Some of them had no visible trauma, some had terrifying wounds torn from bullets on their backs and chests, and many had no clothing.
In the cave that Shang Jianyao could see, nothing was left except the broken pieces of porcelain bowls, pottery bowls, and clay bowls.
There is no need for anyone to explain such a scene. Both Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen instantly understood a fact:
Black Rat Town was slaughtered.
Jiang Baimian looked around in silence and sighed:
"It may be a thermobaric bomb fired by a shoulder-mounted individual combat weapon...
"Those who didn't die on the spot have their guns replaced.
"Very professional."
Thermobaric bombs are a combination of high-explosive bombs and fuel-air bombs, mainly used to kill enemies in confined spaces such as caves and underground bunkers.
After the thermobaric bomb explodes, it will exhaust the surrounding oxygen and release a lot of energy, creating a high-speed expanding fireball. This fireball will swept across a limited environment with high-pressure shock waves, killing the enemy to the greatest extent and destroying equipment.
For a place like Black Rat Town, where the entrance is only 1.4 meters high, it is obviously an unwise choice to rush in and fight against the residents who are adapted to this environment. It is the best way to launch thermobaric bombs and various bombs directly into it. .
"Not many teams have this kind of bomb, and some major forces don't." Bai Chen tried his best to calm himself and replied simply.
Although she is an experienced ex-wilderness who is used to fighting and killing, this is the first time she has witnessed the direct slaughter of a town and a settlement.
The corpses and minced meat on the ground, even if they belong to the next person, are full of unspeakable shock and terror.
In any case, the residents of Black Rat Town are almost indistinguishable from normal humans except for their height, nails and body hair.
-Bai Chen actually saw the massacred settlements, but it was long after the tragedy, except for the few remaining bones and uninhabited dilapidated houses, other traces have long since disappeared.
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Take out the flashlight and split up to find clues.
"Maybe, maybe there are so many survivors?"
Shang Jianyao immediately took off the flashlight and the standard "Ice Moss" pistol from his armed belt, illuminated in one hand, and walked to the edge with the gun in the other.
He doesn't think there will be survivors in and around the center of the blast.
After examining the corpses one by one, Shang Jianyao saw a woman curled up with her back to him.
She still had clothes left, her hands and feet folded, as if she was hugging something tightly and pressing it under her body.
The back of the corpse was faintly visible with thick black hair, and there were wounds with coagulated dark red blood.
Shang Jianyao, who was already bent over, squatted down and turned the corpse of the black rat town resident over with a flashlight as a stick.
As the beam of light swayed, Shang Jianyao saw a little girl.
She was wearing a very old but clean white dress in parts, and was hugged tightly between her chest and abdomen by the adult woman. At first glance, she was not hurt at all.
Shang Jianyao put the flashlight on the ground and tried to check the little girl's condition, but he couldn't break the adult woman's hand.
After giving up this instinctive attempt, Shang Jianyao saw that the little girl's face was cyanotic, and there were traces of dark red blood flowing out of the place where it was close to the adult woman's chest and abdomen.
He immediately measured the other's breath with his fingers and felt his body temperature.
A few seconds passed, and he slowly retracted his palm.
Because the two tightly hugged corpses turned over, Shang Jianyao quickly used the light of the flashlight to find that where they had fallen, there was a depression extending deep at the junction of the cave's rock wall and the ground. , with obvious fingernail marks remaining on it.
Seeing this depression, Shang Jianyao seemed to see the scene at that time:
During the enemy attack, a female town resident of Black Rat Town was anxiously using her talent in mining to create a shelter for her children.
Sadly, this didn't come faster than the bomb.
Shang Jianyao reached out and touched the depression, and found that there was a small naturally formed cavity, and there seemed to be an ice-cold thing in the cavity.
He took it out, and by the light of the flashlight, he found that it was a rectangular black object a little higher than the middle finger.
The item has a tiny LCD-like display just above it, a few buttons in the middle, and a grid-covered speaker below.
When Shang Jian Yao University studied electronics, it is not difficult to distinguish what this tattered and old-fashioned thing is.
This is an old world voice recorder, which was repaired and modified by the townspeople of Black Rat.
Perhaps it fell into the hollow in the depression ahead of time, or it was quite far from the center of the explosion and was blocked by a human body. There was no trace of damage to this electronic device.
Shang Jianyao squatted on one knee, did some research, and pressed a button:
Amid the bang bang bang and all kinds of chaotic movements, a young voice asked in fear and confusion:
"Mom, mom, why are they killing us?"
A slightly hoarse and trembling voice replied:
"Because, we are second people."
The young voice asked:
"What is a second person?"
The slightly hoarse voice was silent for a few seconds before answering:
"That's right, it's a sick person."
The childish voice became more and more puzzled:
"But Mom, are they going to kill us just because we're sick
"I, I can fix electronics, I'm very useful..."
The sound of gunshots suddenly approached, as if it had come to the entrance of the cave, followed by the sound of things falling, and the recording stopped abruptly.
After Shang Jianyao listened in silence, he turned his attention to the two corpses again:
Whether it was the adult woman or the little girl, there was no thick black hair on her face, there were obvious shaving marks, and it looked clean.
This is the same as many female employees of Pangea.
The volume of this recording is not small, Jiang Baimian, who is walking deep, and Bai Chen on the other side can hear it clearly.
They also became unusually silent, and no one spoke or moved for a long time.
After a while, Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly:
"Continue to search for clues."
Shang Jianyao put the voice recorder in his pocket solemnly, then took the flashlight and bent down to stand up again.
As the beam of light moved, he saw some words on the rock wall of the cave.
These words belong to the grey earth language, and have obviously existed for many years, and many places have long been blurred. Obviously, they were not left behind when the townspeople of Black Rat Town were attacked.
Shang Jianyao put the flashlight close to him, and after carefully distinguishing it for ten seconds, he finally recognized a few of the words:
"… A visit… "
“…Jin and…Lee will never be separated…”
At this time, Jiang Baimian seemed to have seen something similar, shook the flashlight, and said with some emotion:
"This seems to be a scenic spot before the destruction of the old world? Who would want to come when it's so short?"
After speaking, she stared at the rock wall for a long time.
After a while, she finally looked away and searched for possible clues.
Ten minutes later, the three met again in a place with natural light at the entrance to the cave.
Jiang Baimian said regretfully:
"The people in Black Rat Town dug out two prepared escape routes before. Unfortunately, thermobaric bombs or other similar bombs came too quickly."
"And the attackers left no clues." Bai Chen responded.
Jiang Baimian shook his head:
"It's not that he didn't stay, but after the battle was settled, he deliberately took the time to deal with it."